Missing the Point: Isolation Alone Will Not Build AI Safety
Treating AI agents like contract nurses and minimizing their access to critical patient information certainly reduces potential risk. But, it also minimizes key opportunities.
AMA Calls for Risk-Based GenAI Oversight to Protect Patients and Support Responsible Innovation
As generative AI moves toward performing increasingly consequential clinical functions, the American Medical Association (AMA) is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to address a foundational question: Who is responsible for ensuring that these tools remain safe once they enter clinical practice?
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
FDA Official Believes GenAI-enabled Tools Will Need to Be Assessed Like a Physician
Rick Abramson, a radiologist by training and the director of FDA's Digital Health Center of Excellence said, "We ended up putting out this idea that maybe these devices are starting to behave a little bit more like me as a physician than a heart valve or a defibrillator."
Why Agentic AI Works in Hospitals When You Strip It Down
Many hospitals are now trying to use AI to automate processes and free up staff time, running simultaneous pilots to perform as many tasks as possible. This quickly leads to pilot sprawl — a state where organizations can no longer even say which agents are still in active use.
How is Oracle Health’s Nurse AI Agent Different?
The Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent is unique in the way it’s embedded directly in the Oracle Health Foundation EHR, making it easier for nurses who don’t have to shift between tools used for separate tasks.
Imprivata CEO: AI Agents Need the Same Scrutiny as an Unvetted Contract Nurse
Imprivata CEO Fran Rosch said AI agents should be treated similarly to the way hospitals treat a new contract nurse — vetted, monitored and then cut off as soon as the job is done.
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Closing the Quality-Affordability Gap in Workplace Mental Health
In an interview, Kyan Health Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Konstantin Struck discussed how Kyan gives mid-market and enterprise employers access to premium workforce mental healthcare, at a price point that is affordable.
This Week In Epic News: FTC Probe, AI Agents & More
Epic faced an FTC antitrust probe this week, but that didn't stop the EHR giant from unveiling a wave of new AI tools at its annual conference.
Healthcare Is Deploying AI Tools — It’s Not Ready for AI Colleagues
Most healthcare organizations are experimenting with AI. Few are preparing to manage AI agents as participants in everyday healthcare workflows.
MedCity Pivot: How Aetna is Adopting Agentic AI
In this episode of the MedCity Pivot Podcast, CVS Health Aetna's chief digital and technology officer talks about how the insurance business is using AI, especially agentic AI, in healthcare. Point to note: AI is not used in automatic denials of coverage.
Startup to Acquisition in 2 Years: Grove AI’s Journey to Transform Clinical Trials
Grove AI’s technology uses voice agents to recruit eligible patients for clinical trials. Formed in 2024, the startup’s rapid growth led to its acquisition by Hippocratic AI earlier this year.
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Automation Didn’t Dehumanize Care. Bad Systems Did.
We have the opportunity to design systems that give people greater capacity for the work where human presence matters most: listening, understanding, reassuring, deciding, and caring.
Assured Health Secures $19M to Get Providers In-Network Faster with Agentic AI
Assured Health raised $19 million for its AI agents that verify provider credentials and manage insurance enrollment for health systems and group practices. The startup said it can cut a process that usually takes months down to days.
Answers at the Speed of Thought: Healthcare Analytics in the Era of Agentic AI
We are moving into an era where we can finally converse with our data. We can ask, "Why are denials spiking in Region X?" or "Show me the safety profile of this cohort," and receive an answer, not a spreadsheet.
Why Penn Medicine Is Deploying AI Agents for Patient Intake
Penn Medicine is integrating K Health’s AI-powered patient intake agents into its virtual primary care service. The health system says the goal is to free up time for patient care rather than information-gathering.
What Happens When AI Stops Answering and Starts Handling Healthcare Tasks?
Patients are trying to navigate insurance confusion, coordinate care, manage prescriptions, and understand the following steps that often feel unclear. Static chatbots were never built for this level of responsibility. Agentic AI is. Or at least that is the idea.
Your Healthcare AI Strategy Is Probably an Architecture Problem
These three patterns keep showing up, and each is much cheaper to prevent than to fix later.